PHILIP E. CONVERSE AWARD

2017: Tali Mendelberg, The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality
2016: Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
2015: Robert Huckfeldt and John Sprague, Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign
2014: Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
2013: John E. Mueller, War, Presidents, and Public Opinion
2012: Edward G. Carmines and James A. Stimson, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics
2011: Paul Sniderman, Richard A. Brody, and Philip Tetlock, Reasoning and Choice: Explorations in Political Psychology
2010: Robert S. Erikson, Gerald C. Wright, and John P. McIver, Statehouse Democracy: Public Opinion and Policy in the American States
2009: Steven J. Rosenstone and John Mark Hansen, Mobilization, Participation, and Democracy in America
2008: Robert E. Lane, Political Ideology
2007: Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism and American Politics
2006: George E. Marcus, James Piereson, and John L. Sullivan, Political Tolerance and American Democracy
2005: Stanley Presser and Howard Schuman, Questions and Answers in Attitude Surveys: Experiments on Question Form, Wording, and Context
2004: Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder, News that Matters: Television and American Public Opinion
2003: Benjamin I. Page and Robert Y. Shapiro, The Rational Public
2002: Morris Fiorina, Retrospective Voting in American National Elections
2001: James Stimson, Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings
2000: John Zaller, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
1999: Anthony Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy
1998: Angus Campbell, Phil Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes, The American Voter

Emerging Scholar Award

Awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his Ph.D.

John Sullivan Award

For the best paper by a graduate student on an EPOVB-sponsored panel at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

2018: Elizabeth Connors, “Political Values as Partisan Social Norms: The Social Context on Value Endorsement”
2017: John Kane, “Are You a Team Player? Party Coalitions, Executives, and Partisan Polarization”
2016: Alexa Bankert, “Measuring Partisanship as a Social Identity in Multi-Party Systems”
2015: Stephen Utych, “Human or Not? Political Rhetoric and Foreign Policy Attitudes”
2013: Alexander George Theodoridis, “It’s My Party: Partisan Intensity through the Lens of Implicit Identity”
2010: Elias Dinas, “The More You Try the Less It Sticks: Parental Politicization and the Endurance of Partisan Transmission through the Family”
2009: Christopher Stout and Reuben Kline, “Ashamed Not to Vote for an African American; Ashamed to Vote for a Women: An Analysis of the Bradley Effect from 1982-2006”
2008: Neil Malhotra and Alexander Kuo, “Attributing Blame: The Public’s Response to Hurricane Katrina”